The lion, called Filya, hopped into the vehicle as tourists looked on in amazement, attempting to take pictures of it ... Advertisement ... Olga Solomina, 46, from Kirov, was bitten on her right arm by the predator and then dragged ‘like a puppet’ ... east2west news) ... east2west news) ... If you have a story for our news team, email us at webnews@metro.co.uk ... ....

Meanwhile, according to a report in Tassnews agency, Russian authorities have found over 2,700 fire safety violations in the country's shopping malls following the fire tragedy in Kemerovo... Most violations were found in the shopping malls of Kirov in western Russia, the news agency said....

ON MY MIND. Vladimir Putin's regime sure is expending a lot of energy on someone it claims not to be worried about ... Some 120 of them were fined or handed short jail sentences ... IN THE NEWS. A Russian court has convicted former Kirov Oblast GovernorNikita Belykh of taking bribes after a politically charged trial of the prominent liberal politician ... ....

The news came as Navalny’s legal problems mounted over the week ... In February, Navalny was given a five-year suspended sentence for embezzling funds from a logging company in the Kirov region. In response to Friday’s ruling, Navalny was cited by the Interfax news agency as criticizing the court’s ruling....

The regional court in the city of Kirov threw out an appeal and upheld suspended sentences for Navalny and his co- defendant in a case over a timber deal, RIA Novostinews agency reported ... Navalny's lawyer Vadim Kobzev told Interfax news agency that the defence team would submit a fresh complaint to Strasbourg....

The regional court in the city of Kirov threw out an appeal and upheld suspended sentences for Navalny and his co-defendant in a case over a timber deal, RIA Novostinews agency reported ... Navalny's lawyer Vadim Kobzev told Interfax news agency that the defense team would submit a fresh complaint to Strasbourg....

Police have launched a second bribery investigation against former KirovGovernorNikita Belykh, who’s now in jail awaiting trial, according to the news agency RIA Novosti... He allegedly received the money to protect the interests of two companies based in the Kirov region....

Navalny was convicted in 2013 of embezzling timber worth $500,000 at the time from a state-owned company in the provincial city of Kirov in a trial which was largely perceived as a vendetta against the rising political star ... "I have absolutely no desire to start traveling to Kirov again," he told Russiannews agencies....

The Rosbalt news service reported that another 300 million euros ($337 million) was found in Swiss bank accounts belonging to Zakharchenko’s father, citing a person in law enforcement that it didn’t identify ... His lawyer, Yuri Novikov, said he knows nothing about any Swiss accounts, according to the RIA Novostinews service....